Restoring Trust Through Bioethics Education?

Fostering Critical Thinking, Reasoning, and Argumentation Skills through Bioethics Education

Developing a position on a socio-scientific issue and defending it using a well-reasoned justification involves complex cognitive skills that are challenging to both teach and assess. Our work centers on instructional strategies for fostering critical thinking skills in high school students using bioethical case studies, decision-making frameworks, and structured analysis tools to scaffold stud...

Bioethics Education in Brazil

This chapter starts with presenting some historical facts that helped to develop bioethics in Brazil. Over the last 42 years, since the birth of the bioethics movement, the points of reference are usually the historical facts in the USA at the beginning of the 1970s (Van Rensselaer Potter and the Georgetown principlist paradigm); in Brazil we have only begun to talk about bioethics during the l...

Education for values and bioethics

"Education for Values and Bioethics" is a project which aims to help the student to build his/her personal ethics. It was addressed to ninth grade students (mean age 14) who frequented public education in all schools of the City of Porto, Portugal-EU in 2010-2013 (N-1164). This research and action project intended to promote the acquisition of knowledge in the following areas: interpersonal rel...

The Presidential Bioethics Commission: pedagogical materials and bioethics education.

Restoring trust in VA health care.

295 But when Mrs. A. answers my question why, she doesn’t mention teaching material or guinea pigs. She doesn’t dread amateurish invasions of her privacy or the frustration of answering the same questions again and again. She doesn’t allude to dark rumors about unsupervised residents run amok. She talks about her late husband’s final hospitalization at another academic center. There, she heard ...